U.S. House · Historical
Former U.S. Representatives
Individuals who have served in the United States House of Representatives and have since left office, grouped first by the state they represented and then by congressional district. The House seats 435 voting members apportioned among the fifty states by population, each elected from a single congressional district to a two-year term; the members below completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or election to higher office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former representative’s biography, the state and district they represented, their party, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, congress.gov, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, open a state to see its former delegation, or open a district to trace the lineage of members who held that seat over time. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a representative’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-representatives hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
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Illinois delegation →- Barratt O’HaraIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1949–1969
- Carter HarrisonIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1875–1879
- Frank LawlerIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1885–1891
- Gus SavageIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1981–1993
- James MannIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1897–1923
- James WoodworthIllinoisDistrict 2Ind. Republican-Democrat1855–1857
- Jasper WardIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1873–1875
- Jesse Jackson Jr.IllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1995–2012
- John FarnsworthIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1857–1873
- John FeelyIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1901–1903
- John FinertyIllinoisDistrict 2Ind. Democrat1883–1885
- Mel ReynoldsIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1993–1995
- Morgan MurphyIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1971–1981
- Morton HullIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1923–1933
- Patrick MoynihanIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1933–1935
- Raymond McKeoughIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1935–1943
- Richard VailIllinoisDistrict 2Republican1947–1953
- William RowanIllinoisDistrict 2Democratic1943–1947
- Zadok CaseyIllinoisDistrict 2Ind. Democrat1833–1843
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